Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp!
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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Dartboards are made out of horsehairs.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
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Any domino can knock over another object up to 1.5x its size. The 32nd object would be big enough to knock over the Empire State Building.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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